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RAY HICK has become the new works engineer at Midlands British Road Services Wolverhampton repair centre. He was previously with Vincent Greehous, the Bedford main agent in Telford, and prior to that, with Furrows, who are Ford lorry specialists. Mr Hick, who has worked in the commercial vehicle maintenance field for 11 years, succeeds Frank Goodall, who retired at the end of August after more than 20 years with the company.
New United States management at Sandbach Engineering, Fodens' successor, includes the British commercial vehicle industry's only woman chief engineer. She is Laurie Baker, from associate Paccar company Kenworth. Also ex-Kenworth is marketing manager Ross Canterberry. The company's managing director is Hank Kiefer (not Kiezler as we reported last week) from the Australian Kenworth subsidiary.
Mitchell Cotts Airfreight (UK) Ltd has just opened an office close to Gatwick Airport and its new manager is Kenneth Ede, who has been with the company for only five months. He has spent the last five years in the air freight forwarding industry based at Gatwick. Assisting Mr Ede as supervisor will be Robin Smith, who has been working in the air cargo industry for the last three years.
Andy Robertson has taken over as the Road Haulage Association's Devon and Cornwall area secretary after 33 years in the Army. He succeeds Peter Robinson. Neil Young, assistant sec tary of the Freight Transport sociation's south-east regi has joined Overdrive as sistant central manager.
New group managing direc of Edbro (Holdings) Ltd is Ge frey Buckley who was previou a director of Stone Platt IndL ries and the Ford Motor Co pany where he headed the tr tor division. Meanwhile, Ji McAndrew becomes gene manager of Edbro (London) of Hayes. He has held a numt of senior executive sales po with Craven Tasker and Antho Carrimore over the last sev years and prior to that was w Edbro (Bolton) Ltd for 31 yea Tony Solomons, chairm and chief executive of Sinc and Friedlander Ltd, has becor a European Ferries director f lowing the group's acquisition the merchant bank earlier ti month. There are also mr board appointments from wit( the European Ferries group I Geoffrey Parker, managi director of Port of Felixsto\ and Townsend Thoresen's Fel stowe and Irish Sea Shippi services; and John Parsons, c puty managing director Townsend Thoresen's Dov division.
Safety awards were present' to 22 of London's top bus drive at a presentation dinner earli this week. All the drivers at ti ceremony — held at Lonck Transport's headquarters Westminster — have at least years of safe driving behit them. A total of ten million mil of driving has been complett by the drivers, says LT, and if year's top award winner is W ham White, who is based at V Wood Green Garage.
Keith Cornwall was the fir driver across a new £210,0( bridge over the M50 at Kemple Gloucestershire, last week. most two years ago the origin bridge collapsed when an arti ulated lorry hit a support, killir the driver. At that time Mr Cor wall was about to cross tl bridge when the accident ha pened and he stopped with pa of his lorry hanging over tf motorway below.